Kitty PrideI love fourfour and the “kitty pride” segments, featuring that other Brooklyn exotic shorthair (my dearest Tiptoe isn’t the only one!) named Winston have been giving me so much pleasure lately.
The E.T. Halloween costume is one of my favorite things on earth, and the site features many videos.
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Creative Grammar and SpellingI didn’t get born to this grate cuntry to go baroque, loss our feedom and speak any lanaguage that not english, be a red communiss with socilism!
Spoken like a true Teabagger, a fringe (at least, I hope fringe) group that has fascinated me from the beginning with their unwittingly dirty name. Here is a photo collection of their unique spellings on recent protest signs. Prepare to feel superior.
A Perfect CombinationI love Peeps and I love dioramas, so you can just imagine how I feel about this Washington Post gallery. Below/after the jump are some favorite entries from this and years past.
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Another gem that I first discovered courtesy of the Found Footage Festival, age defying (or perhaps “age confusing”) home made pop star Jan Terri is phenomenal. Her list of cable access hits such as Losing You, Get Down Goblin, Journey to Mars, Little Brother, and Baby Blues are catchy, mind blowing and rather touching in their earnestness.
The world needs more Jans! And, to be prefectly honest, her voice kind of sounds like a Runaways-era hit maker.
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L0, lo, lo, lo, lo, lo, lo, lo, lo, loI think I like this Russian pop song (recently brought to my attention by Luke over on Rotating Corpse) most because of the complexity and depth of its lyrics.
Children’s Books Through the Eyes of WernerI adore anything to do with Werner Herzog so the idea of him lending his existential fatalism to children’s books makes me happy. I kind of wish they had gotten the actual Herzog, just because I adore his voice and even a decent impersonation doesn’t compare, still that’s splitting hairs, and comedian Ryan Iverson does get the language right as he expounds on the maturing rituals of young French girls. By the way I also found this video of Herzog shrugs off a bullet wound mid interview. The man is insane and wonderful!
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Astrology SongsThe astrological interpretations of one Harvey Sid Fisher are another spectacular find courtesy of the guys over at The Found Footage Festival. A public access artist extraordinaire, Fisher, clad in a tuxedo, captured his collection of 12 zodiac songs (just try to get “Talkin’ bout the Taurus, talkin’ ’bout the bully bull bull” out of your head once it gets inside) back in 1989, setting each to an amazing interpretive dance.
So do enjoy and make sure to check out the compilations of The Found Footage Festival available on DVD (which we just picked up at Amoeba) for more gems, many of which have (or soon will) appear on this very blog.
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Children Can Die In So Many WaysIt would seem that the goal of the latest local public service announcements is to make us sick to our stomachs with the consequences of our indulgent lifestyles (fingerless smokers or sodas made with human, bulbous, bile filled, reddish fat anyone?) but in Britian back in the 1970s they had their sights on the nation’s children, who time and again were shown the myriad ways they could be killed in every day situations.
The Apaches, a particularly gruesome film about a group of kids dying in various ways on a farm is a bit of a cult classic but the threatening drowning film “I Am the Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water” is a favorite of mine (and I beg anyone with a heavy metal band to do a song with that title). There are tons of these on youtube (type in “British Public Information Films”); I’ve included some stills below/after the jump.
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More Cursed Than MacbethThis video of a Peter Pan production gone awry just makes me laugh… There’s something about disastrous amateur shows that always cracks me up; I vividly remember fleeing the Pike’s Peak Center in a fit of uncontrollable giggles when a chorus girl fell off the top riser (she was fine).
Of course, the video can’t help but remind me of another side-splitting Peter Pan fail wryly recalled by the always charming Jack Hitt at the beginning of the classic This American Life episode, Fiasco!
A Google image search turned up the awesome Captain Hook photo below; the video is below/after the jump.
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Fake Information PodcastFormer professional literary agent John Hodgman‘s wealth of false facts and made-up histories always make me laugh; his brief daily podcast, Today in the Past, is more of the same… which is one of the only instances where that is a very, very good thing.
Make sure to read excellent tomes The Areas of My Expertise and More Information Than You Require, which the podcast was created to promote.